The Austrian dramatist and novelist Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931) is at his best in one-act plays and novellas that often deal with extreme situations--death, sexual conflicts, and neurotic and even psychotic states. Born of Jewish parents in Vienna,...

Arthur Schnitzler was born on 15 May 1862 in Vienna, the first child of Johann Schnitzler, a laryngologist, and Louise Markbreiter Schnitzler, a physician's daughter. Johann Schnitzler, who wrote for the Wiener Medizinische Presse and in 1887 founded...

Scarcely any playwright is as closely identified with turn-of-the-century Vienna as is Arthur Schnitzler. Once regarded as a one-sided writer whose perspective was limited to upper-crust Viennese society during the belle èpoque, Schnitzler has...

Wisely, Andrew C. Arthur Schnitzler and Twentieth-Century Criticism. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2004. 201 pp. $75.00 hardcover. As a volume in the Literary Criticism in Perspective series, Andrew Wisely's book would seem to need no statement of purpose at its outset. However, after...

Lorenz, Dagmar, ed. A Companion to the Works of Arthur Schnitzler. Rochester: Camden House, 2003. xii + 415 pp. $90.00 hardcover. "Die Begrenzungen zwischen Bewuikem, Halbbewufkem und Unbewufitem so scharf zu ziehen, als es überhaupt möglich ist": recent proof that Schnitzler scholarship continues...

In the following excerpt, Schneider-Halvorson provides a plot overview and critical analyses of Die Schwestern oder Casanova in Spa.

In the following essay, Schneider-Halvorson discusses various critical commentary, as well as Schnitzler's use of themes and symbols in the play Der Gang Zum Weiher.

In the following essay, Schneider-Halvorson discusses various critical commentary, as well as Schnitzler's use of themes and symbols in the play Im Spiel Der Sommerlüfte.

Arthur Schnitzler's 1895 play `Liebelei' provoked mass controversy within the Viennese upper class upon its premier in the `Burgtheater', as did many of his plays. This reaction could in part be explained by Schnitzler's "frank description of sexuality"¹ and his crudely realistic portrayal of Viennese society at that time through his application of very common personalities for his characters. Schnitzler gives the reader through the characters of `Liebelei', into Viennese society at the turn of th